A recording console has literally thousands of amplifiers in it.Īmplifiers in equipment can be based on tubes, or on solid state component like transistors or OP amps, or some sort of combination. So, for the rest of this article, when I write amplifier or component, I am NOT referring to a guitar amp, or a mic preamp or a stereo power amp I'm referring to a little circuit thing stuffed down in all the analog gear you will ever run into. Generally, in a piece of analog gear, no matter if it is an EQ or a compressor or a mic preamp, the heart of it, the thing that makes it work, is some sort of amplifier. And digital plug-ins are all simulating the characteristics of those analog components. LOTS OF AMPLIFIERSĪnalog recording equipment is made up of a bunch of components, things like tubes and transistors and transformers, etc. And if you understand bias, our plug-ins will make more sense to you, especially since almost all of them have a tweakable bias control on them. If you understand bias, you’ll understand a lot of other concepts, and things like dynamic range and harmonic distortion will actually make more sense when we get to them. There are reasons I want to start here, rather than something more elementary like dynamic range or “what is a dB” or some such. The technical stuff is important to know and apply - it’s the reason we call ourselves Audio Engineers, because it’s engineering. There will be some details I'll gloss over, and a few things I’ll simplify, but conceptually, everything I’ll write will be useful and applicable. So, for the next few weeks, I’m going to address some of the these technical concepts in an easy to understand way. And our plug-ins have more possibilities and performance if you understand things going on under the hood, or in the case of our plug-ins, around on the other side. I try to write things such that they are “self-explained,” and you don’t need to google terms, but there are some concepts that require going deeper. We’ve gotten really good feedback on our blogs, and we're glad a lot of you have been finding them helpful.īut in much of the feedback, people ask questions, usually about technical terms or issues.
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